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It's a boy! JLS's Oritsé and his gf AJ have their first child

It's a boy! JLS's Oritsé and his gf AJ have their first child - Celebrity News & Gossip - Glamour.com

28 Aug 2014

"We've been through so much since we first came together and no one would have dreamed what we achieved could be possible, and of course for it to all end was a massively emotional decision, and it wasn't one that was taken lightly.

"We've had an incredible career for five years and we want to see it as a celebration that we've achieved so much. We wanted to go out on top and not be that act where people are like, 'Oh bloody hell, it's JLS again'."

Humes went on to admit that the band went through a series of tough decisions over the past few months, but added that they wanted to "go out with a bang".

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He added: "We started in 2007, the last six years has been all of our wildest dreams come true. We never wanted to overstay our welcome in the industry, Alan.

"We wanted to bow out at the top, and I think that we've got a massive tour at the end of the year, and we wanted to do that; remain friends, finish at the top and go out with a bang really."

Oritsé said that his emotional state was caused by seeing how the group's split had devastated fans as he arrived at the Channel 4 studios.

He said: "Emotions are running high - it's only because I saw the fans literally as we were coming in to see you and just seeing them cry and seeing them upset really evoked that emotion in me.

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"But you know, it is a celebration, at the end of the day we've had an amazing six years together, we've been on a journey. Nobody else may have seen the hard times as well as the good times, but we're the luckiest four boys in the world."

The group went on to tell Alan Carr that they were going to focus on individual projects for the foreseeable future.

JB said: "We are a band but it's like family and in a family you grow up, the teenagers go off to college, they do their own thing, they might move house.

"We all live in similar areas and we'll always have that bond, but it's definitely time for us just to move on and I suppose be independent."

JLS have confirmed that they will split up after one final farewell tour.

The boyband, who found fame and fortune after appearing on The X Factor five years ago, will end their career together following a string of shows in December.

Speaking to The Sun,Aston Merrygold said: "It's just that time. We are still best of friends and always will be, but this is the end. "The question was asked, 'Can you do this together for another five or so years? Can you see that happening?' Between the four of us, there was no definite 'Yes' in the room. We had to dig deep and find the right solution. "We haven't fallen out. We leave with some amazing successes under our belt, and we can say goodbye in style." Marvin Humes added: "It's an emotional time. There's no getting away from that. We have been through so much together. But we have to be mature and look at this decision as a celebration of what we managed to achieve. "We wanted to finish on a high. We're finishing with an arena tour - our third arena tour - and that is a massive achievement. The last five or so years have been nothing short of incredible. It has been an incredible journey." Humes, who is expecting his first child with The Saturdays star Rochelle Wiseman in just four weeks, continued: "We are the first X Factor act to finish a five-year recording contract. If we wanted to carry on and sign to another label, it was going to be another three, four or five albums. "So we all thought about it for a few months, and it sort of made sense to say we were moving on with our lives."

The band shot to fame after they came second to Alexandra Burke on The X Factor in 2008. Since then, they have enjoyed five No.1 hits and sold over 10million records. They boast countless MOBO and BRIT Awards between them. "They say all good things come to an end and for us it just felt like it was the right time to move forward and pursue different ventures," Oritsé Williams said. "We have all become so close, as have our families, so that has been quite hard to deal with.

"Breaking the news to them was hard, but my mum was proud we did it, and we are calling it a day as friends." JB Gill added that, despite the impending split, the group will continue their work with charitable organisation the JLS Foundation. "We've all made a commitment on paper that no matter what we're doing, wherever we are, whatever happens from here on, we will commit to the Foundation," he said. "We're already in a partnership with Cancer Research UK - we're committed to them for two years, and we want to raise £2 million."